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A Disaster Foretold
Weak regulations, under-trained staff and the lack safety mechanisms led to the blast at Sigachi Industries that claimed 42 lives
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July 21, 2025
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Writing Us, Reaching Us
Ableist and sexist tropes of disability in literature have changed to some extent, but there's still a long way to go
6 min |
July 21, 2025
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Ranking of Professional Colleges
Understanding the maze of metrics and meaning of ranking of professional colleges in India, decision-making for aspiring students and parents becomes much more specific and refined
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July 21, 2025
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Cold Promises
The Centre's recent regulations for land, jobs and cultural preservation aim to address concerns raised by civil society in Ladakh, but Ladakhis feel this is just a quick-fix bureaucratic solution as their primary demands—inclusion in the Sixth Schedule and statehood—have been ignored
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July 21, 2025
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Namazwad Vs Samajwad
Following Operation Sindoor’s low traction in its Bihar election campaign, the saffron party rakes up ‘socialism’. Will the ploy work?
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July 21, 2025
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The Great American Campus Dilemma
US President Donald Trump has gone after America’s Ivy League colleges, including freezing funding of $2.2 billion to the prestigious Harvard University.
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July 21, 2025
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Regressing Republic
India has fallen into a moral and intellectual stupor in the last 11 years
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July 21, 2025
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Fear and Loathing in the Ivy League
Ideological deportations aren't official policy, but they strike at the heart of United States Ivies
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July 21, 2025
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Thought Police
Are Indian universities turning into suffocating spaces where constant censorship and surveillance is leaving no room for protests or dissenting voices?
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July 21, 2025
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The Way Home
For India-born Danish conductor Maria Badstue, music is the one space where she truly belongs
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July 21, 2025
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A Good Read on a Long Flight
Off to Boston, for the long flight, I took two books- Pakistani-British writer Kamila Shamsie's Kartography was one of them. There is a backstory to it
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July 21, 2025
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Iran-e-Sagheer
Many Kashmiri students choose to study in Iran due to a combination of affordability and cultural familiarity. A degree in medicine is the most preferred option
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July 21, 2025
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The Othering of Learning
Once a magical place for learning, universities have become a space of conflict, of tension, a space to be derided and ridiculed
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July 21, 2025
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Going, Going, Go-aah
Goa < 2075, India's first live, bilingual novel, is set in a futuristic Goa under corporate rule where corruption and environmental degradation are rampant
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July 21, 2025
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From Crisis to Credibility Strengthening Publication Ethics in Academia
In academia, publishing a research paper was historically regarded as the apex of meticulous thought, experimentation, and sincere investigation.
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July 21, 2025
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Free the Word
Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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July 11, 2025
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Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye to Kya Hai
Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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July 11, 2025
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When the Words Stop
Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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July 11, 2025
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Rath Jatra
Is Mamata Banerjee's embrace of Lord Jagannath the latest counter to the BJP's Ram-centric politics?
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July 11, 2025
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Zan, Zindagi, Azadi
As missiles fall silent—for now—it's time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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July 11, 2025
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The She Voter
Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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July 11, 2025
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Veil, Women and Warfare
Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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July 11, 2025
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Forever Hotel
This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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July 11, 2025
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Regimentation
The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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July 11, 2025
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The Way We War
Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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July 11, 2025
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Red-Blue Republic of New York
Not the conservative 'red' as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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July 11, 2025
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Drink From the Poisoned Chalice
Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
7 min |
July 11, 2025
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War's New Script
Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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July 11, 2025
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Many Folds of the Persian Carpet
Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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July 11, 2025
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The Hands that Guard the Ayatollah
The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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